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Thanks!! No official roadmap (such is Open Source), but: * Rust Conversion (got a proof of concept, need to productionise it) - Anki Desktop has moved to Rust

Thanks!! No official roadmap (such is Open Source), but: * Rust Conversion (got a proof of concept, need to productionise it) - Anki Desktop has moved to Rust. We can unify all of the platform, and remove most of our backend code and maintenance burden. * Android 11 has made significant changes to how applications store files on the device (Scoped Storage). I expect this will be a nightmare to deal with: https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/storage https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/storage * Visual HTML Editor (probably 2.13) - currently editing and adding formatting could do with a ton of love. Typing HTML by hand isn't a great experience for non-technical users. * User onboarding & UX - We get tons of bad reviews: "All my cards have been deleted" - this is because we fail to explain how Anki/Spaced Repetition works and that we take control of scheduling. People download AnkiDroid expecting flashcards, and we can do much better in this area. * Performance improvements with larger collections - we're fast, but there's still lots of low-hanging fruit regarding multithreading. * Background media sync - Medical Students have multi-gigabyte collections (just fixed a bug where some Android systems wouldn't open zips >= 2^31-1 bytes). We're tied to the AnkiWeb protocol for syncing, but it'd be a much better UX if we moved this to the background. Personal Goals (some point in the future) * CI/CD improvements - both speeding up build times, adding more styles of testing to the pipeline and adding more auto-linting. * Accessibility - our TTS doesn't play well with Android talkback; this hurts me to type. * Better gamepad support

DAllison 6y ago
Missed the edit window formatted: Thanks!! No official roadmap (such is Open Source), but: * Rust Conversion (got a proof of concept, need to productionise it) - Anki Desktop has moved to Rust. We can unify all of the platform, and remove most of our backend code and maintenance burden. * Android 11 has made significant changes to how applications store files on the device (Scoped Storage). I expect this will be a nightmare to deal with: https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/storage https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/storage * Visual HTML Editor (probably 2.13) - currently editing and adding formatting could do with a ton of love. Typing HTML by hand isn't a great experience for non-technical users. * User onboarding & UX - We get tons of bad reviews: "All my cards have been deleted" - this is because we fail to explain how Anki/Spaced Repetition works and that we take control of scheduling. People download AnkiDroid expecting flashcards, and we can do much better in this area. * Performance improvements with larger collections - we're fast, but there's still lots of low-hanging fruit regarding multithreading. * Background media sync - Medical Students have multi-gigabyte collections (just fixed a bug where some Android systems wouldn't open zips >= 2^31-1 bytes). We're tied to the AnkiWeb protocol for syncing, but it'd be a much better UX if we moved this to the background. Personal Goals (some point in the future) * CI/CD improvements - both speeding up build times, adding more styles of testing to the pipeline and adding more auto-linting. * Accessibility - our TTS doesn't play well with Android talkback; this hurts me to type. * Better gamepad support
- ciarannolan 6y ago
  Awesome, thank you for the info. Anki is a tool I use and love but I know very little about the behind the scenes work. >* User onboarding & UX - We get tons of bad reviews: "All my cards have been deleted" - this is because we fail to explain how Anki/Spaced Repetition works and that we take control of scheduling. People download AnkiDroid expecting flashcards, and we can do much better in this area. Somewhat related, but I would like a way to "cram" cards (ie. temporarily review all cards in a deck, in random order, without affecting anything about their spaced repetition timing). I feel like this must exist but I haven't found it. Do you know how to do this? Also, how does Anki support the costs of Ankiweb? Is there a way I can contribute? It's not immediately obvious to me from clicking around on Ankiweb. Finally, is this just a rip-off of Anki or is it legit? https://www.ankiapp.com/ https://www.ankiapp.com/
  - DAllison 6y ago
    > Somewhat related, but I would like a way to "cram" cards (ie. temporarily review all cards in a deck, in random order, without affecting anything about their spaced repetition timing). I feel like this must exist but I haven't found it. Do you know how to do this? That's a strange one... it exists, (Create Filtered Deck - Long Press - Options - Untick Reschedule) but only works well in the V2 Scheduler. The V1 scheduler doesn't handle cards in the red (learn/relearn) well. The problem with the V2 scheduler, which makes people hesistant about upgrading is the upgrade process will move all cards in the red queue back to the blue (new)/green (review) queues. https://anki.tenderapp.com/kb/anki-ecosystem/the-anki-21-scheduler https://anki.tenderapp.com/kb/anki-ecosystem/the-anki-21-sch... > Switching the scheduler will empty all filtered decks, and reset any cards that are in learning. It will also force the next sync to be a full sync. Manual Entry: https://docs.ankiweb.net/#/filtered-decks https://docs.ankiweb.net/#/filtered-decks ---- No. Damien's opinions on funding: https://faqs.ankiweb.net/why-does-ankimobile-cost-more-than-a-typical-mobile-app.html https://faqs.ankiweb.net/why-does-ankimobile-cost-more-than-... . The iOS app is paid ($24.99) and funds AnkiWeb, so offer to buy it for a friend if you can. Personally, I'm taking donations (caveat: AnkiDroid is a port, I'm one of a few contributors, and the money would go to me, rather than Damien, who runs the rest of the ecosystem (AnkiWeb/AnkiDesktop/AnkiMobile)): https://github.com/sponsors/david-allison-1/ https://github.com/sponsors/david-allison-1/ ---- AnkiApp isn't part of the ecosystem. It's frustrating telling people that they were mislead, and data extraction isn't easy for non-technical users: https://anki.tenderapp.com/kb/anki-ecosystem/ankiapp-is-not-part-of-the-anki-ecosystem https://anki.tenderapp.com/kb/anki-ecosystem/ankiapp-is-not-...
personjerry 6y ago
Why don't you put up an official roadmap? Why is "Open Source" stopping you from doing that?
- DAllison 6y ago
  No good reason. It's A combination of time allocation, the fact that it's a collaborative process and I'm still learning the ropes, and the fact that nobody's asked for one until now.

DAllison 6y ago

Missed the edit window formatted: Thanks!! No official roadmap (such is Open Source), but: * Rust Conversion (got a proof of concept, need to productionise it) - Anki Desktop has moved to Rust. We can unify all of the platform, and remove most of our backend code and maintenance burden. * Android 11 has made significant changes to how applications store files on the device (Scoped Storage). I expect this will be a nightmare to deal with: https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/storage https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/storage * Visual HTML Editor (probably 2.13) - currently editing and adding formatting could do with a ton of love. Typing HTML by hand isn't a great experience for non-technical users. * User onboarding & UX - We get tons of bad reviews: "All my cards have been deleted" - this is because we fail to explain how Anki/Spaced Repetition works and that we take control of scheduling. People download AnkiDroid expecting flashcards, and we can do much better in this area. * Performance improvements with larger collections - we're fast, but there's still lots of low-hanging fruit regarding multithreading. * Background media sync - Medical Students have multi-gigabyte collections (just fixed a bug where some Android systems wouldn't open zips >= 2^31-1 bytes). We're tied to the AnkiWeb protocol for syncing, but it'd be a much better UX if we moved this to the background. Personal Goals (some point in the future) * CI/CD improvements - both speeding up build times, adding more styles of testing to the pipeline and adding more auto-linting. * Accessibility - our TTS doesn't play well with Android talkback; this hurts me to type. * Better gamepad support

ciarannolan 6y ago
Awesome, thank you for the info. Anki is a tool I use and love but I know very little about the behind the scenes work. >* User onboarding & UX - We get tons of bad reviews: "All my cards have been deleted" - this is because we fail to explain how Anki/Spaced Repetition works and that we take control of scheduling. People download AnkiDroid expecting flashcards, and we can do much better in this area. Somewhat related, but I would like a way to "cram" cards (ie. temporarily review all cards in a deck, in random order, without affecting anything about their spaced repetition timing). I feel like this must exist but I haven't found it. Do you know how to do this? Also, how does Anki support the costs of Ankiweb? Is there a way I can contribute? It's not immediately obvious to me from clicking around on Ankiweb. Finally, is this just a rip-off of Anki or is it legit? https://www.ankiapp.com/ https://www.ankiapp.com/
- DAllison 6y ago
  > Somewhat related, but I would like a way to "cram" cards (ie. temporarily review all cards in a deck, in random order, without affecting anything about their spaced repetition timing). I feel like this must exist but I haven't found it. Do you know how to do this? That's a strange one... it exists, (Create Filtered Deck - Long Press - Options - Untick Reschedule) but only works well in the V2 Scheduler. The V1 scheduler doesn't handle cards in the red (learn/relearn) well. The problem with the V2 scheduler, which makes people hesistant about upgrading is the upgrade process will move all cards in the red queue back to the blue (new)/green (review) queues. https://anki.tenderapp.com/kb/anki-ecosystem/the-anki-21-scheduler https://anki.tenderapp.com/kb/anki-ecosystem/the-anki-21-sch... > Switching the scheduler will empty all filtered decks, and reset any cards that are in learning. It will also force the next sync to be a full sync. Manual Entry: https://docs.ankiweb.net/#/filtered-decks https://docs.ankiweb.net/#/filtered-decks ---- No. Damien's opinions on funding: https://faqs.ankiweb.net/why-does-ankimobile-cost-more-than-a-typical-mobile-app.html https://faqs.ankiweb.net/why-does-ankimobile-cost-more-than-... . The iOS app is paid ($24.99) and funds AnkiWeb, so offer to buy it for a friend if you can. Personally, I'm taking donations (caveat: AnkiDroid is a port, I'm one of a few contributors, and the money would go to me, rather than Damien, who runs the rest of the ecosystem (AnkiWeb/AnkiDesktop/AnkiMobile)): https://github.com/sponsors/david-allison-1/ https://github.com/sponsors/david-allison-1/ ---- AnkiApp isn't part of the ecosystem. It's frustrating telling people that they were mislead, and data extraction isn't easy for non-technical users: https://anki.tenderapp.com/kb/anki-ecosystem/ankiapp-is-not-part-of-the-anki-ecosystem https://anki.tenderapp.com/kb/anki-ecosystem/ankiapp-is-not-...

personjerry 6y ago

Why don't you put up an official roadmap? Why is "Open Source" stopping you from doing that?

DAllison 6y ago
No good reason. It's A combination of time allocation, the fact that it's a collaborative process and I'm still learning the ropes, and the fact that nobody's asked for one until now.